Planning for Human Systems : : Essays in Honor of Russell L. Ackoff / / ed. by Roberta M. Snow, Jean-Marc Choukroun.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Beer, Stafford,; Broholm, Paul,; Busch, August A.,; Carvajal, Raúl,; Chevalier, Michel,; Churchman, C. West,; Cohen, Burton,; Cowan, Thomas A.,; Evan, William M.,; Finnel, Elsa Vergara,; Fishburn, Peter C.,; Friend, John,; Garden, Fred,; Geranmayeh, Ali,; Gharajedaghi, Jamshid,; Gilmore, Thomas N.,; Haley, K. Brian,; Harris, Britton,; Jimenez, Jaime,; Johnsen, Erik,; Katsenelinboigen, Aron,; Mason, Richard O.,; Mitroff, Ian I.,; Pritzker, Leon,; Saaty, Thomas L.,; Sachdeva, Paramjit S.,; Sachs, Ignacy,; Sagasti, Francisco R.,; Schon, Donald A.,; Smith, William E.,; Taylor, Glen,; Tomlinson, Rolfe,; Trist, Eric,
• HerausgeberIn: Choukroun, Jean-Marc,; Snow, Roberta M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (448 p.) :; 35 illus.

Russell Lincoln Ackoff is a recognized authority in the field of operations research and systems theory. This volume is divided into four major sections. The first deals with Ackoff's intellectual roots in the American pragmatic tradition. The second section demonstrates how systems thinkers have incorporated Ackoff's ideas in their own work. The third section shows the influence of Ackoff's thinking on decision making and problem solving, while the final section offers a reassessment of current approaches to systems planning on the national level. In addition, the editors have provided a general introduction, as well as introductions to each of the five sections. Planning for Human Systems will be of interest to students and scholars of operations research and systems theory.Contributors: Michel Chevalier, C. West Churchman, Thomas A. Cowan, Eric Trist, Ian I. Mitroff, Stafford Beer, and Ignacy Sachs.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Section I: Russell Ackoff and Anheuser-Busch: The Story of a Model Relationship -- 1. Russell L. Ackoff and Anheuser-Busch: I. The Influence of the Man on the Organization -- 2. Russell L. Ackoff and Anheuser-Busch: II. The Influence of the Organization on the Man -- Section II. Pragmatism and Progress: Foundations -- 3. Analysis of Concepts -- 4. The Apostle of Progress -- 5. A Present of the Future -- 6. OR, MS, Systems Science, and Russell Ackoff: The Development of Two Paradigms -- Appendix: Principal Publications of Russell L. Ackoff -- Section III. Systems Thinkers and Systems Applications -- 7. Planning Concepts, Planning Contexts -- 8. OR in Organizations -- 9. Andras Angyal and Systems Thinking -- 10. A Theory of Management -- 11. Educating for Reflection-in-Action -- 12. Performance Criteria as a Means of Social integration -- 13. Some Comments on R. Ackoffs Concept of Interactive Planning -- 14. On Suicidal Rabbits: A Relativity of Systems -- 15. Personal Computers and the Shifting Control of Information in Corporations -- 16. Democratizing the Corporation: A Stakeholder Perspective -- Section IV: Decision Making and Problem Solving: Purposeful Action Within Systems -- 17. Inequalities in Decision Theory -- 18. Priorities and Decisions in Hierarchic and Feedback Systems -- 19. Measuring Process Creativity -- 20. Innovation and Optimization -- 21. Is It the Right Problem? -- 22. How Management by Consensus Is Bringing the Kingdom Down -- 23. Innovation in Juvenile Justice -- Section V: Planning for National Development -- 24. The Elusive Interdisciplinarity of Development Planning -- 25. National Development Planning in Turbulent Times: New Approaches and Criteria for Institutional Design -- 26. Redesigning Western Foreign Policy -- 27. Power in the Design, Management, and Evaluation of Organizations -- 28. Toward Interactive Planning for International Development Projects -- 29. Surutato: An Experience in Rural Participative Planning -- List of Contributors -- Subject Index -- Name Index